Note 1. The doctrine of the blessed fatality of friendship which is found in the essay on the Over-Soul (Essays, First Series, p. 294). See also the last lines of the motto of Compensation. [back]

Note 2. This was so true of his friend Thoreau, who yet had ever tenderness concealed under a stoic exterior, that Mr. Emerson said of him, One would as soon think of taking the arm of an elm-tree as Henrys. [back]

Note 3. Let us not have this childish luxury in our regards, but the austerest worth; let us approach our friend with an audacious trust in the truth of his heart, in the breadth, impossible to be overturned, of his foundations.Friendship, Essays, First Series. [back]